I see the Awesomeness.
Support cut of RL section.
Fight smart, not fair.
It's a trope about fictional characters. Real life people are not fictional characters, i.e. cannot be Sue. RL section is pointless and gives off a taste of person-targeted complaining/bitching.
I would also say only cut the real life examples.
Think of the mooks!
Another vote to cut the RL section.
Reminder: Offscreen Villainy does not count towards Complete Monster.
Burn it to the ground and scatter the ashes.
Lost in Space
Burn it! Burn its house down!
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Drop-Dead Cynical
![[up]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/smiles/arrow_up.png "[up]"){kind=icon}
Where the hell did I put those combustible lemons?
Yeah, this page doesn't need to exist in any way, shape, or form.
Well, that's not quite true - there are legitimate examples in there of Mary Sue characters from unpublished works, mostly from the authors. That's a fair enough reason for the page to live. But I agree allowing real life examples is just another licence for people to bitch about the popular kids at school/college/work - cut those.
Can we add some kind of reminder on the page to people not to add further real life examples? Or would that just be overtaken by the reformatting that's going on anyway?
"Well, it's a lifestyle"
Lost in Space
We don't put Unpublished Works examples in Troper Tales. That is not and has never been the purpose of that page. Unpublished Works do not get examples in the main wiki, period.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Whoops - you're right. I must have been thinking of the "things that happened in an RPG session" that go there. Apologies. In that case, the whole lot can be cut.
Nuke it dead.
!?!?!?!?!?
No, seriously. What - why - ?
The mind boggles at the existence of this page. Kill It with Fire.
If it was RPG uses, it would be borderline, but its not. Kill it, and if someone wants to do RPG examples (that don't fit under GMPC) then they can.
Yeah, I can see a fun Troper Tales page of RPG examples of Mary Sue characters. They neither exist in fiction or in real life. But they are examples, and they can pretty pretty humorous. But that isn't the case here.
WAAAGH!
Replace the picture with this page, and you have my reaction
◊.
I've put it on the Cut List.
The article is history. Calling for a lock.
There have been examples of real life people being declared Sues. The thing is that this is wrong as real life does not operate under the same rules as fiction, nor does the concept of Willing Suspension of Disbelief exists in real life even if one believes Reality Is Unrealistic- ironic as it is obviously real life that determines what is realistic and what is not.
PS. Furthermore there is always a justification for any of these various traits within real life, and even though the definition of Mary Sue is subjective, I thought one of the requirement was that these traits of Mary Sues were illogically gotten?